CANCELED: Decolonizing Research, Humanizing Methods

Time: March 11, 2020, 10 a.m. - noon

Location: 304 Tolley Humanities Building

UPDATE: This event has been canceled in response to emerging COVID-19 precautions and advisories.

Winn offers a workshop on equity-oriented, justice-seeking research in the humanities, focusing on listening, storytelling, and acting with and through communities. Space is limited. Please RSVP by Feb. 26 to Kristen Krause and include any accommodation requests.

Biography: Maisha T. Winn is Professor, Chancellor's Leadership Professor, and Co-Director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center (TJE) at UC Davis. Winn’s research examines the intersectionality of language, literacy, and justice with attention to how to prepare teachers to “teach freedom” in both spaces of confinement and across the humanities. She considers the ways in which restorative justice practices have the potential to change languages, literacies, and social relations across our schools, institutions, and communities. Winn will draw from two of her books—Justice on Both sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice and Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom—as bases for discussion with TJE Center collaborators and other panelists during her residency.

Additional supporters:

Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Community Folk Art Center
David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
Department of African American Studies
Department of English
Department of Religion
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Hendricks Chapel
Incarceration and Decarceration/Revival Cultures Working Group of the CNY Humanities Corridor
Office of Community Engagement
PARCC (Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration)
Reading and Language Arts
School of Education
Syracuse University Libraries
The Center for Faculty Leadership and Professional Development
The Lender Center for Social Justice
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The Renée Crown University Honors Program
VPA, Office of the Dean, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This event is part of the 2020 Watson Professor residency hosted by Patrick W. Berry, Associate Professor and Chair – Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; Brice Nordquist, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies – Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; and Marcelle Haddix, Dean’s Professor and Chair - Reading and Language Arts.

The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities is a preeminent lectureship originally established by the Watson family to support on-campus residencies of prominent humanities scholars, writers, and artists.

Humanities Center, humcenter@syr.edu